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Trump Given Bad Weather News About His Birthday Tank Parade
The president’s $45 million parade might not go as planned due to potential rain and thunderstorms.
Trump Given Bad Weather News About His Birthday Tank Parade
By Jasmine Venet,
15 hours agoAnimated Gif by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s upcoming $45 million parade will most likely get rained on, according to current weather forecasts.
As of Wednesday, the National Weather Service has predicted that there is a 60 percent chance it will rain Saturday after 2 p.m. with a probability of thunderstorms in the evening, potentially foiling Trump’s stacked parade itinerary.
Its website currently reads for Saturday night: “Showers likely before 8pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 8pm and 2am, then a chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 70. Chance of precipitation is 60%.”
The president’s $45 million parade might not go as planned due to potential rain and thunderstorms.
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Big Tech stumbles into a big brawl over C-SPAN’s streaming future
". . .But lawmakers do not want to see their congressional hearings and
debates turned into another opportunity for Big Tech to rake in more ad
dollars."
Big Tech stumbles into a big brawl over C-SPAN’s streaming future
A bipartisan Senate coalition is asking YouTube TV and Hulu to add Congress’s favorite station to their lineups.
“The public has every right to see the debates that go on in this place, whether it is the votes on the floor and the debates on this bill or whether it is committee hearings,” the Minnesota Democrat said.
It’s that bipartisan support for the network
that is now more than 45 years old that has created a surprising
rallying cry on Capitol Hill against several of the most powerful tech
and media companies. . .
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This dispute has even caught the eye of an important regulator, the Federal Communications Commission. Under its new chair, Brendan Carr, appointed by President Donald Trump, the commission has taken an aggressive approach to challenging tech and media institutions.
- An FCC official declined formal comment on the C-SPAN blackout among streamers but offered this background comment: “We’re aware of the issue, and we’re looking into it.”
For revenue, C-SPAN receives a small sum of money for each cable subscriber, currently set at little more than seven cents per household.
The drop-off from 100 million to 70 million subscriber households would be difficult but manageable. Shaving off another 20 million households, because YouTube TV and its streaming cohorts won’t carry it, has left C-SPAN reeling.
- Officially, YouTube TV says talks are ongoing.
- Other streamers — including Disney, which owns Hulu + Live TV and is merging it with Fubo TV — have let YouTube to take the lead in defending the blockade against C-SPAN. Fubo officials have only suggested being “open to discussing” adding the political network. Disney did not respond when asked for comment.===
C-SPAN supporters believe that YouTube TV is the gold standard of streamers and, if it added C-SPAN, the others would follow suit. But streaming-industry allies have suggested that C-SPAN needs to change its model and start running ads so their industry can recoup what would otherwise be lost revenue by adding the nonprofit to their services.
That suggestion does not sit well with the Senate.
But
Brian Lamb, who founded C-SPAN, very much wanted to cover Congress and
the administration in a neutral environment.
That meant no ads for
- pharmaceutical companies,
- labor unions,
- or any other special interests, unlike other news organizations and political newsletters focused on Congress.
Its morning show, Washington Journal, still has a call-in line where viewers identify as Democrats, independents and Republicans to ask relevant and sometimes off-the-wall questions to guests who include government officials and important journalists.
What’s perplexing to the congressional supporters of C-SPAN is why such major corporations have put up a fight over something that is barely a rounding error to their financial books.
In the 12-month period ending Sept. 30, Alphabet reported that all of YouTube’s platforms brought in $50 billion in ad revenue.
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